I90 THE SOUTH SEAS, 165O-I75O [CHAP. coast, in 30° 40' S. The news was brought to Batavia by one of the ship's boats, and two small vessels—the Witte Valk and the Goede Hoop—were at once despatched for the purpose of rescuing the remainder of the survivors. Both vessels reached the South land—the Goede Hoop at the very spot where the wreck was said to have taken place—but, meeting with bad weather, returned without effecting anything. Early in the following year instruc¬ tions were given to the skipper of the Vink to touch at the South¬ land on the voyage from the Cape of Good Hope, but after sighting the land he was compelled by violent storms to desist from the search. In January, 1658, the ships Wakende Boei sjnd Emeloord were sent from Batavia to make further search, and also to execute a survey of the coast. The journals of the skippers, Samuel Volkersen and Aucke Pieterszoon Jonck, have been pre¬ served, as well as various charts of the coast of Eendrachtsland made during the voyage. The ships were separated, but both reached the scene of the disaster independently, and sent boats ashore, firing shots also as signals. The only trace discovered either of men or wreck was in the form of planks, etc., evidently derived from the lost ship. Thus ended the further search, but in the same year, 1658, the South-land was again struck—in 3i|° S. —by the flute Elbiirgh, J. P. Peereboom master, natives being subsequently seen near Cape Leeuwin and specimens procured of a hammer used by them and of a red gum employed in fixingits head. Twenty years later (1678) a further examination of aportion of the north-west coast was made by Jan van der Wallduring a voyage from Ternate to Batavia. Apart from a referenceto the voyage in a despatch by the Governor-General of the DutchEast Indies, the only evidence respecting it is the chart madeduring the voyage, which lays down the coast line from a pointdue south of Rotti (? Cape Leveque) to the modern Exmouth GulfThis was the last of the Dutch voyages prior to the first visit ofDampier to the coast of New Holland, to which we must nowreturn. Sailing due south from the west end of Timor, the Cygnetpassed a shoal in about 13° 50' S. and fell in with the land ofNew Holland in 16° 50', on January 4, 1688, afterwards running